PRINTER'S NO. 3724
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE RESOLUTION
No.
960
Session of
2015
INTRODUCED BY FRANKEL, HENNESSEY, COHEN, SCHLOSSBERG,
YOUNGBLOOD, RAPP, ROZZI, DRISCOLL, BAKER, DiGIROLAMO, JAMES,
DeLISSIO, McGINNIS, KIRKLAND, HELM, SANTARSIERO, CALTAGIRONE,
VITALI, DAVIS, KOTIK, GODSHALL, D. COSTA, SCHLEGEL CULVER,
MUSTIO, J. HARRIS, W. KELLER, WATSON, SAYLOR, MACKENZIE,
D. MILLER, WARD, TOEPEL, PHILLIPS-HILL, READSHAW, O'NEILL,
MENTZER, GROVE, MILLARD, DERMODY, BULLOCK, VEREB, MURT,
McNEILL, ROSS, DONATUCCI, MAHONEY, KAUFER AND PAYNE,
JULY 12, 2016
INTRODUCED AS NONCONTROVERSIAL RESOLUTION UNDER RULE 35,
JULY 12, 2016
A RESOLUTION
Honoring the extraordinary life and indelible legacy of
Auschwitz survivor, humanitarian and Nobel Peace Prize winner
Elie Wiesel, who passed away on July 2, 2016, at the age of
87.
WHEREAS, Elie Wiesel was born in 1928 in Sighet,
Transylvania, which is now part of Romania; and
WHEREAS, Mr. Wiesel was just 15 years of age when he and his
family were deported to Auschwitz by the Nazis; and
WHEREAS, Mr. Wiesel was forced to work under harrowing
conditions in the nearby labor camp of Buna alongside his
father, eventually being transferred to a number of other camps
before the end of World War II; and
WHEREAS, His father died at Buchenwald in 1945 shortly before
the camp was liberated, and his mother Sarah and younger sister
Tzipora also perished in the Holocaust; and
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